CRISMART

1. CRISMART Center for Crisis Management Research and Training Swedish National Defence College Stockholm

2. CRISMART Activities • Research and Study: Build new and multidisciplinaryknowledgeaboutvariousfacets of crisis management and engage in scientific and popular debate over thesefindings. • Education and Training: Undertakeacademiceducation and practitionertraining to build the next generation of skilledprofessionals. • Objective: Contribute to enhanced crisis management capabilitiesacrossboundaries.

3. Crisis: The DecisionMakingPerspective • Key decision makers perceive: ---Core values at stake (threat/opportunity) ---Uncertainty ---Urgency High levels of individual and organizational stress

4. Classic Crismartmethodfor crisis management research 1. Place the case in context 2. Establish a time frame 3. Develop a narrative account 4. Dissect the complexcaseintodecision occasions 5. Undertakecomparativethematicanalysesacross the growingcase bank 6. Infuseeducation and training programs with the findings from case bank based research.

5. A Widening CM Research Agenda • Crisis prevention • Crisis preparedness • Crisis decision making • Crisis coordination and implementation • Crisis communication and media relations • Crisis accountability and legitimacy • Crisis learning

6. Crises and CM are trans-boundary in manyrespects. The wider research agenda has beenappliedempirically to manysectordomains. Studies havebeenfocused on local and national levels as well as on the European Union and on management practices at the international level. The research and trainingeffortswillnowalso be focused on building and diffusing new knowledgeconcerningNatural Disasters.